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  • Historic Drought Prompts Water Innovation in California – Can It Be a Model?

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 9, 2017  //  By Scott Houston
    Central-Valley

    Pray for rain. Mega-drought. Winter salmon run nearly extinguished. Sierra snowpack dismal. These were just some of the headlines in California newspapers over the last five years during a historic drought that elevated water security to the top of everyone’s minds.

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  • Tamil Nadu Leads India’s Historic Turn to the Sun and Wind

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    Choke Point  //  June 7, 2017  //  By Keith Schneider
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    The ninth and final story in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    MADURAI, India – Before he agreed to serve as minister of state and take command of his country’s mammoth energy production and distribution sector, Piyush Goyal developed one of India’s most spirited political careers. “A man of ideas and competence,” according to First Post, a prominent news organization, Goyal is an accountant and lawyer who rose to the peak of Indian economic and political culture as an investment banker, member of parliament, and treasurer of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

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  • Food Violence Shows Need for Both Development and Climate Resilience

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 31, 2017  //  By Benjamin T. Jones, Eleonora Mattiaci & Bear F. Braumoeller
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    In March, the Trump Administration released a new budget proposal that would cut funding to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development by 28 percent. The proposal also reduces funding to the United Nations for ongoing climate change efforts. At the same time, the White House is publicly considered withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords, with a final decision anticipated any day. Critics both outside the administration and within have pointed to the drawbacks of these moves, but the sum of the policy changes could have an even greater impact than the individual parts.

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  • A Journalists’ Guide to Energy and the Environment in 2017

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    From the Wilson Center  //  March 6, 2017  //  By Azua (Zizhan) Luo
    SEJ

    “Turbulent and possibly revolutionary times are ahead for U.S. energy and environmental policy,” said Bobby Magill, a senior science writer at Climate Central, at the Wilson Center on February 3. “If there’s one message the Trump Administration is sending about environmental and climate regulations, it’s this: The future will not look like the past.”

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  • Adapting NATO to Climate Change, and the Economic Benefits of the 1.5-Degree Limit

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    Reading Radar  //  January 13, 2017  //  By Sreya Panuganti

    RANDIn his dissertation, Tyler H. Lippert of the Pardee RAND Graduate School explains how the transboundary security impacts of climate change will both challenge and elevate the role of international multilateral institutions like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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  • Backdraft Revisited: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 12, 2017  //  By Lauren Herzer Risi
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    Whether or not we respond to climate change – and the security implications of that decision – is a major public policy question. But increasingly experts are paying closer attention to how we respond.

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  • Paradox of Progress: National Intelligence Council Releases Global Trends Report

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    January 11, 2017  //  By Schuyler Null
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    Do you experience information overload? Feel like there’s always another crisis to worry about? Sense a kind of chaos? Well, you may be a citizen of the early 21st century.

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  • Strategic Ambiguity: How Loss and Damage Became a Part of Global Climate Policy

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 8, 2016  //  By Lisa Vanhala
    Marrakech

    As the international community meets in Marrakesh for the climate change negotiations at COP-22, one of the most delicate issues on the table is the review of what’s called the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage, or WIM.

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